How serious are you about your coffee? Serious enough to consider roasting your own coffee beans? In the past, doing so at home was a complicated process that required a lot of attention to detail, but a new project on Kickstarter — Ikwawa Coffee — is aiming to make home roasting a more accessible process for coffee lovers everywhere.

Our favorite part? Just how quickly the beans roast — you can go from green coffee beans to fully roasted in just a few minutes.

By this point in the brew day, we have finished making the base of our beer — the sugary wort — and now it's time to introduce some other flavors. This happens in the form of those tiny, very aromatic, rather pungent hop pellets. Hops, meet beer. Beer, meet hops. Brewers, let's get these two friends better acquainted.

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After the mash, the next major part in the beer-making process is separating out the sweet liquid we've made and sparging the mashed grains. Don't let that word "sparge" intimidate you — it might sound like an 18th century affliction and a pirate's worst fear, but it's just a fancy way of talking about rinsing residual sugars from the surface of the mashed grains. Grab a strainer, it's time to sparge!

I, like many children, hated naps. I remember being put to bed after lunch, only to lie in bed and listen for the calming sound of my mother pouring coffee beans into the grinder, this the holy moment of her day when she was child-free and had a moment to herself. I was so attuned to the sound of those beans falling into the grinder that one time, when she poured some M&Ms into a glass bowl, I apparently shouted from my bedroom, "What are you eating?"

I was a precocious (obnoxious?) little thing. But all to say, that naps really weren't my thing. I always felt that time could have been better put to use.

Every batch of all-grain beer starts right here, with the mash. This is where we take the dry, cracked grains, combine them with some warm water, and make the malty, sugar-filled liquid that will be the base for our homebrew. And it's really not much more complicated than making an extra-large batch of oatmeal or cooking a pot of pasta. If you can handle those kitchen tasks, then you can handle mashing grains to make beer.

Here's everything you need to know about the first hour of your brew day.